NOT.1:9 - Consequences

The next notation decision becomes a choice about work that can be attempted. A designer can explain why a distinction, convention or editing operation is needed and can recognize when a simpler notation suffices.

The method costs representative construction and use. It can reveal a gap in the subject account that notation design alone cannot settle. Its result is local to the selected operations and conditions; extending use can expose another requirement. Keeping the contrast behind a decision makes that extension easier to reason about.